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Homecoming – NCSA
Larry Smarr, NCSA’s founder, recently came home to NCSA to give a talk on his journey from founding the Center to his work with the National Research Platform (NRP). Smarr was on campus to accept an honorary Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC) during this year’s commencement.
Pioneering Scientist and Innovator Larry Smarr Retires – HPC Wire
June 13, 2020 – During these two decades, Smarr grew the two-campus Calit2 into a collaborative discovery system that engaged hundreds of faculty, staff, students, and companies.
FuturePatient – Larry Smarr, PhD
The full recording of computer scientist Larry Smarr presenting ten years of his personal health data on the Visualization Wall at his institute, Calit2 at UC San Diego.
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The Man Who Saw Inside Himself – The Atlantic
For years, Larry Smarr has used a supercomputer to monitor his health and peer at his organs. Recently, he used his knowledge to help direct his own surgery.
Why Larry Smarr Is Pioneering Collaborative Innovation – Strategy+Business
Larry Smarr has become a vital conductor of innovation by insisting that scientists and researchers at the incubators he runs collaborate across the lines that separate disciplines.
Larry Smarr on Solving the Big Data Challenge in HPC – HPC Wire
September 25, 2015 – Internet pioneer Larry Smarr once had a vision of bringing connected computers out of academia and into the consumer world. Today, he envisions a second virtual highway, one capable of delivering on the promise of big data by leveraging fiber optic networks to transmit data at speeds of 10 gigabits to 100 gigabits per second.
The Quantified Computer Scientist: Larry Smarr on the Future of Medicine – Vox
Cast across the screens are Smarr’s insides, or at least the closest you can get when breaking down the microbiology of a human body into data. There are some 150 variables in boxes color-coded against their divergence from the norm
Collective Genius – The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation
Great leaders of innovation don’t fit the conventional mold of “good” leadership. They’re not visionaries who set direction and inspire others to follow. Instead, they create the context in which others are both willing and able to innovate. As one leader said, “My job is to set the stage, not to perform on it.”
The Measured Man – The Atlantic
Larry Smarr, an astrophysicist turned computer scientist, has a new project: charting his every bodily function in minute detail. What he’s discovering may be the future of health care.
The Patient of the Future – MIT Technology Review
Internet pioneer Larry Smarr’s quest to quantify everything about his health led him to a startling discovery, an unusual partnership with his doctor, and more control over his life.
He sees IT coming – Mizzou Alumni Magazine
For decades, Larry Smarr has helped shape information technology that has given us the Internet, special effects for blockbuster movies and more.
The Soul of the Ultimate Machine – New York Times
The Internet, he explained, is evolving into a single vast computer fashioned out of billions of interconnected processors. Then he went another step: ”The real question, from a software point of view, is: Will it become self-aware?”
HPC in 1996 and 1997: An interview with Larry Smarr – HPC Wire
January 10, 1997 – Urbana-Champaign, Ill. — To further understanding of significant trends in high-performance computing at the juncture of a new year, HPCwire interviewed Larry Smarr, director of NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) about his view of the most important developments that have taken place in the industry during 1996 and those which might be anticipated in the 12 months ahead.